Examples

But not even this induces us; more foolish are we than any, putting golden necklaces about our servants and mules and horses, and neglecting our Lord who goes about naked, and passes from door to door, and ever stands at our outlets, and stretches forth His hands to us, but often regarding Him with unpitying eye; yet these very things He undergoes for our sake.

His description of what it is to live with a disease that immobilizes your limbs and your capacity for speech, but leaves you able to feel and remember, is pitiless and unpitying, but it is among the most touching vindications of the power of language that I have read.